2017 Workshops

All of the workshops offered fit into one or more of the following categories below. Please see full workshop description to see which categories apply.

CATEGORIES:

Creative Thinking and Theory: Ideas and experiences that would deepen understanding of creative thinking and problem-solving.

Education / Training: Ideas and experiences that would contribute to delivering instruction and facilitating learning including specific strategies and tools, as well as group process techniques, and content related to creativity and innovation.

Arts Experience: Possible applications that would provide hands-on experiences with any of the arts including music, drawing, painting, collage, mask making, dance, theater, and writing. The arts experiences would also provide models for using the arts in a variety of contexts.

Business / Entrepreneurship / Innovation: Ideas and experiences that would help professionals explore the applications and implications of integrating creativity and creative problem solving techniques into daily business practices. These sessions may aid professionals re-frame creativity as an essential aspect of commercial innovation.

Personal Growth: Ideas and experiences that would provide opportunities for reflection, personal exploration and growth, self-assessment and feedback. May include a time to just enjoy, laugh, participate in playful experiences, and reconnect with your inner child.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

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Emotional Intelligence is one of the most influential predictors of success in the workplace and beyond. In this safe space, participants will utilize hands-on activities, discussion, and data to examine...

Sometimes it takes going through a mess to find the comfort and joy waiting on the other side. There is something of value when you’re in the middle of chaos. Explore how there is a gift in every adversity.

Learn and practice two powerful tools – changing channels and prototyping - to move ideas and organizations forward. Changing channels uses the directions on the remote control to improve programming. Prototyping brings ideas to life by engaging the Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic processors.

This interactive workshop focuses on the factors that critically affect productivity and explores approaches for encouraging innovation in the workplace. Participants will complete a sample self-assessment based on the Situational Outlook Questionnaire.

Whether for business or personal pursuits, when our energy is scattered, we take much longer to reach a goal. Gain a template to supercharge personal and professional goals and to discover how to manage personal energy conservation.

Creativity reimagined can make the difference between flourishing and floundering. Join Marta for a fun and inspiring session full of insights into new neuroscience and neurobiology data that can transform old beliefs about creativity.

Unleash your Super-Powers and become a superhero in your work and life. Participants will be guided to identify a personal ‘super-power’ and use a myriad of repurposed materials to fashion a superhero badge.

We are all born into a universe with an infinite number of colors and yet often turn into ‘medium gray pencils.’ This session is designed to help people discover ways to add color to all parts of their lives.

The simple act of making art is a form of alchemical magic, as it takes the mundane and transforms it into something special. By joining Ann and Christella in some productive play you’ll leave the workshop with an original poem and a simple, hand-made journal.

Enter the interactive world of innovation where you will enact the major roles of a truly creative professional. Assess your capacity for integrating these crucial roles through a series of highly experimental exercises.

Discover how science, art, nature and environment can interconnect towards igniting creative thinkers. Whether you are an educator, parent, grandparent or friend to youngsters YOU can make a difference by engaging them creatively.

About Us

Florida Creativity Conference is presented by the Florida Creativity Alliance, Inc. in partnership with the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee and Florida Studio Theatre. The Florida Creativity Planning Team is made up of educators, creativity professionals, business people, and not-for-profit organization representatives with a shared passion for promoting the benefits of creative thinking, problem solving, expression and education. They volunteer their time and talents to encourage positive change as people develop their amazing creative potential. The conference environment is designed so that everyone can both share and learn.